Week 3 LEADERSHIP
This third lecture focuses on the discussion if leadership is one of the most important factors for high performing organisations. The different (hierarchical) levels of leadership, different styles of leadership, and the effectiveness of these styles will be addressed. Furthermore, the professional background of leadership will be discussed.

Burke
This article focuses on the relationship between specific leader behaviours and team performance outcomes.

Team leadership
Functional approach: leaders main job is to do whatever is not being adequately handled for group needs. Within this approach the leader is effective to the degree that he/she ensures that all functions critical to task and team maintenance are completed. Team leadership = dynamic process of social problem solving through generic responses, categorized as (Fleischman):

1. Information search and structuring (to inform leader, used to decide upon course of action during 2.) 2. Information use in problem solving 3. Managing personnel resources 4. Managing material resources

Hackman: not on leadership functions, but on identifying condition that leaders can create to facilitate team effectiveness.

* teams must be real (team task, boundaries, specified authority) * have compelling direction (challenging, clear and consequential) gained from first two leadership functions above * an enabling structure (core conditions) Leaders manage personnel resources by creating an enabling structure, so can be linked to 3. Above. Example: designing work such that members identify with the task, or manner in which the team is composed can serve to provide an enabling structure * a supportive organizational context (reward systems, info systems, training) * expert coaching (enabling conditions) be related to 4.
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